More
than never before in the recent history of Nigeria have we received so much world
acclamation as we have with our successful curtailing of the Spread of the Ebola
disease that was brought into our country by a Liberian. In fact, I have never
been so proud of being a Nigerian as I am right now, considering the fact that
news emanating from our country before now has always been sad and painful especially
as relates to the nefarious activities of the dreaded Boko Haram sect and the
oftentimes corrupt activities of our elected government officials.
Today,
for the first time, the United States of America has come down from its high
horse to learn something… anything at all from Nigeria. My God, never had I envisaged
that a time was going to come when the Americans, the cockiest nation in the
world would learn something from Nigeria, the average American would rather
resort to science to learn how to cook Egusi soup than own up to a Nigerian to
teach him to do it.
But the
news that the U.S is sending in some of its officials into Nigeria to learn how
we were able to control the spread of the Ebola effectively is aggrandizing as
it is preoccupying. Maybe I am an alarmist, but over the years we have seen declassified
reports of what for several years were classified as top secret by the FBI and
the C.I.A looking ludicrous as well as cruel. We have seen nefarious top secret
deliberate infections of citizens of poor countries with different forms of
diseases without their knowledge as a way of using them as true life experimental
specimen to understudy the real effects of some strange diseases and also the
consequences of some strange drugs.
It is
no news that for several decades and even till date, the U.S and some world
powers are still sending their spies to different countries under the guise of
being missionaries, medical assistants, voluntary workers and so on. Although
it is exulting to know that the Americans are claiming to come and learn from
Nigeria to see how we were able to successfully curtail the strange Ebola
disease which started so abruptly in the west coast of Africa like an evil seed,
sown on purpose, whose real sowers are still unknown and might never be
indicted, My worry is that Nigeria is also close to the D-Day when the American
secret service prognosticated the disintegration of our dear nation. A report
allegedly released by the U.S intelligence unit says that the nation called
Nigeria would not go beyond the year 2015.
I do
not have anything against any country, I understand that countries should first
think of their own well being before that of other countries and that with this
in mind, sometimes, nations use every means, legal and illegal to protect their
interests, it is no news that if Nigeria manages her human and natural
resources very well we would surely be in the struggle for the control of
economic prominence in the world and this might not augur well with countries
which might consider our rise as a threat to their own comfortable positions in
the world economic league of nations.
My
advice therefore to my country Nigeria is that we should still continue to
maintain the same intensity of check measures that enabled us to curtail the
disease to ensure that visitors into our country do not come back and
reintroduce the scourge into our country, we should also be very vigilant and not trust
any nation at all, the Americans and the British that could not ratify an arms
deal with us to enable us successfully wipe out the insurgency problem we are
facing once and for all might just not mean well for us after all. We should “torchlight”
the movement and every step of the American officials claiming to come and
understudy our method of successfully controlling the spread of the Ebola
disease lest they drop a more devastating problem on our soil; a word is enough
for the wise.
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